From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 01:19:52 +0000 Subject: Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org David Woodhouse wrote: > > > -- There is no mechanism to request a card eject in the new framework. > > > This is required for clean shutdown of SCSI and IDE adapters. > > It's arguable that this is a bug in the SCSI and IDE drivers. Users _do_ > just pull cards out. We should deal with it, not oops and die. This is a > fundamental part of what hotplugging means, especially to users of > consumer devices. That sounds like two related mechanisms, not one. A "clean shutdown" request to a driver is a different thing than a "device is gone" notification, even if sometimes the end state will be similar. I pretty much think both are needed ... clean shutdown is pretty similar to what should be done before a power management suspend, right? There are a bunch of other reasons to have a clean shutdown call. - Dave _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel